Ever since the first American-built passenger train, known as the “Tom Thumb,” made its debut in 1830 on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad featuring 13 miles of rails, America would begin an ...

an eastbound passenger train and a westbound freight on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad came into collision because of the failure of the freight train crew to give the passenger train a clear track.

While many of these train activities ... visit the family-friendly Baltimore and Ohio Railway Museum, located where the first stone of the commercial American railroad was laid nearly 200 years ...